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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:47 PM
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Cult of Obama News: Todays Big Learnings

I have learned that Obama would certainly have voted for the IWR had he had an opportunity. The proof is simple: he said quite clearly at the time that he wouldn't.

I have also learned that Clinton's vote for peace, her yes vote for the Iraqi War Resolution was a vote for inspections and Congressional control over any actions that the executive might take. Her brave yes vote was the last best effort to keep the president from going to war without Congressional authorization. It is too bad that more Democrats did not join her so that the authorization for war would have had unanimous approval. That would have clearly prevented Bush from going to war.

Finally I have learned that the Clinton campaign and her supporters here on DU are wise to us. They have been carefully watching the last 25 primaries and caucuses and they have figured out how we are winning. It seems that we are sending out more people to vote than they are. They are on top of this now, and are developing a strategy to deal with the Cult of Obama popularity issue. They are going to propose that no regular delegates be seated as it seems these delegates are being selected by popular vote. Popular vote is a very dangerous thing that results in cult-like behavior. All of the states using primaries and caucuses to select delegates by popular vote will have those delegates put into the same secret rendition centers that the Michigan and Florida regular delegates are being sent to. The nominee will instead be selected based on number of days spent in Washington DC since 1992. This is a much safer system that will guarantee that our party does not run a candidate who is dangerously popular.

I am so grateful to the many wonderful posts here on GDP that have taught me these many big learnings.

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casus belli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:48 PM
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1. As long as they don't take my Kool-Aid
Just keep the Kool-Aid coming and I'm good. It's yummy.
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KLee Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:30 PM
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3. lol nt
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KLee Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:12 PM
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2. I guess we've all been duped....
I thought the nominee and the President was chosen by the American people, well that was until 2000. I guess we need to disenfranchise all those millions of voters who voted like me. Forget the ones who couldn't vote for Barack because he wasn't on the ballot in Michigan. Hillary won it fair and square. Let's let Florida slide, even though all candidates agreed to the process, by not seating the delegates and not campaigning there. I guess Barack should have held a fundraiser in Florida disguised as a getting out the vote too. I guess all those people who were told that their vote wouldn't count in Florida are disenfranchised too.

I guess it's okay to change the rules in midgame when things don't go your way. I guess if you see something wrong with the system, we should agree to it until we find out it doesn't go our way.

Let me make this clear, I will vote for Hillary, but only if she wins it fairly. I will not stand for the millions and millions of people's votes being disenfranchised because the rules got changed in the middle of the game. Al Gore got robbed, it doesn't make it okay for one of our own to rob the other. Sorry!

Honestly, I think this is all heresay anyway, considering how her campaign has been run. I think Hillary really does have a good heart, and surely she will not disenfranchise voters. I think this is her ruthless Campaign talking, not her. I feel sorry for her.
She has been advised poorly throughout this whole process. I am starting to wonder which side Mark Penn is on, since Charly (last name) works for McCain. Charly works under Mark Penn, as President of one of his subsidiary companies. Maybe this is Mark Penn's hope that he destroys Hillary, so he can have McCain. It would be a conflict of interest for him to have Hillary vs. McCain. Think about it, Republicans are for Big Business, Democrats are not. Bill Clinton argued for Nafta, so Mark Penn was happy with him. I find it hard to believe he is happy with Hillary over McCain. Just my opinion.

Hillary, I still believe in you. Please stop the madness, because you are losing respect of some of the American people. I want to vote for you if you're the nominee, please don't take my right to do that away. Granted it will be by choice, but a moral one.

Maybe this is what Mark Penn wants, to villify her, try to cheat, so we divide the Democratic party and McCain wins. After all that is the only way he can, as evidenced by the tremendous turnout of people voting Democratic over Republican in the race so far. Even before McCain was the "nominee" and they had all their candidates, their total votes combined paled in extreme comparison to Democrats, so I find it hard to believe when some say that Republicans are just jumping over to the other side to skew the vote. Maybe that's the case after he was the "nominee", because votes wouldn't matter much then.

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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:47 PM
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4. The scary part is...
I find it all so logical.
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:51 PM
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5. Love it
:thumbsup:
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